July 13, 2008

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I think you guys at the History Commons are the greatest thing since sliced bread. And it’s not just because I’m married to Max. You guys are making a difference. Because of people like you the whole world is FINALLY getting the facts and a greater understanding of just how greedy, corrupt and morally bankrupt the United States governement, and most governments, really are. People are starting to wake up and demand accountabilty.
Thank you for all that you do and G-d Bless America!!

Contrary to Senator Schumer’s spin, Gonzales resigned over Senator Specter’s disclosure that the Judiciary Committee was going to investigate the OxyContin fiasco. As the physician codefendant in the $5.2B OxyContin suit and the one that compeled US Attorney Brownlee to obtain the $634.5M from Purdue Pharma, I know.

$500M of the $634.5M that was obtained was to go to a center for pain management and addiction prevention. This was actually requested by members of congress that reviewed this whole fiasco.

Reno and Ashcroft pushed all the pain management physicians out of their clinics. Then, the DEA/Drug Task Force flooded the streets with OxyContin (supposedly to fight the Asian Heroine market.)

No one talks about where the money went. Let’s just say that Schumer put Mukasey in and Mike’s son Marc, works for Giuliani. Giuliani is counsel for Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin.

The $500M for the pain management addiction foundation was considered a worthy investment because during the $5.2B OxyContin suit, I developed a new model of addiction. This provided the affirmative defense for Purdue Pharma.

Prior to this time, we had no scientific defintion of addiction. During the suit, I argued that it was a manifestation of an obsessive compulsive disorder. The importance to the suit was that the intensity of the addiction is propotionate to the intensity of the OCD, not the intensity of the stimulus.

The importance of this new model is that we can understand, prevent and treat addiction better now. After Judge Jones faied to order the money to go to the foundation, Specter, who had been briefed on this since Dec of 2004, confronted Gonzales. The rest is history as spun by the politicians.